A couple of days ago, we received an email that made our entire team very anxious. It was letter from Hasbro. They accused us in infringement of their trademark — board-game "BETRAYAL AT HOUSE ON THE HILL".
This was shock to us. Our games are completely different: we have different plot, different gameplay and even different themes. It is a very difficult for somebody to mix up our games, especially considering their have a different format and different titles.
Unfortunately, we are a very small development team (SteppeHare consists of three people), and we do not have enough finances to prove ourselves through court.
We want to make sure that you will be able to play our game in the future, and because of that we decided to change its title. This change will not affect gameplay or the ability to play our game through Steam in any way. The change of the title — is the only change in the game. And it seems to us that we've chosen a worthy replacement.
Okay... It's been a while but I think it's finally over. I've fixed the game crash bug and I can sleep properly at night now. I'm so sorry it took so long, and I deserve ALL the backlash I got for it, this should never have happened in the first place. Okay, so what's next? Well, I'm going to refer back to the timeline and start updating Puzzzle to get it to where it needs to be. Thank you all so much for sticking with me and I can't thank @Too_Restless enough for what he's done with guides and support over this, my friend you are a legend.
Borneo: A Jungle Nightmare - Federico Fantastico Studio
Today we present an interesting written analysis sent to us by Liam, from Australia. Check it out!
Cannibal Holocaust has gained many fans and many detractors since its release, both sides have participated in lengthy discussions about the merits of the film. One subject that comes up when fans defend the movie is the messages the movie presents. Today I am going to explore those messages a bit closer.
The most prominent message one will take from a first viewing is the commentary of Western Society’s treatment of Native and Indigenous communities. Deodato’s previous Cannibal film Jungle Holocaust explored these topics as well, as our “hero” in that film starts to lose his Western society as they natives rip his clothes to shreds and destroy his possessions and he is forced to act like them to survive.
The characters of Professor Monroe and Alan Yates are polar opposites who represent both sides of the Western Society meeting the Native and Indigenous in the Amazon. Monroe is a very polite and respectful man who goes out of his way to be respectful and friendly to the tribe, even doing things such as stripping himself down so the tribe can see he is similar to them and not a threat and even though he is repulsed at the food they offer him for their dinner ceremony, he decides to go along with it to further show he has respect for them and because of this, I find Monroe to be a likable character and Robert Kerman’s performance is a strong plus for the film.
Alan Yates however is a total monster who has no regard for the traditions of the Ya̧nomamö, in fact Alan is worse in that he has no regards for their safety or lives. He also no concern for being truthful or honest, as one executive during says when the Professor is reviewing the footage that Yates had been filming for his documentary, Alan paid some soldiers during production of his documentary “Last Road to Hell” to act more threatening for the cameras, this goes into Cannibal Holocaust’s next item of criticism..the media and news journalism.
Yates’ and his crew are seen attempting to stage several violent encounters with the natives which eventually backfires on them. This is most definitely a stab at the way certain news sources have twisted stories out of context or misrepresented them, sometimes the way audiences respond to these news stories. Sometimes when you look at the comment section on news articles about morbid and serious topics, you will see comments that ignore certain aspects vital to story and only focus one aspect of the story.
When Monroe is voicing his disgust and objection to the footage being aired, none of the executives he speaks with seems to care about the cruelty towards the natives but once they witness the crew being killed, they want the footage buried and forgotten.
Cannibal Holocaust is a confronting film, but it is a film with a lot of good ideas and smart things to say. It’s part of the reason why it has a strong dedicated fanbase that still watch and discuss the film to this very day.
Get ready for a cannibalistic summer 💀
Borneo: A Jungle Nightmare. Coming Summer 2021 on Steam
The Winter Mansion map is going to be officially disabled in the game on Monday 01/18/2021. Till then we give you an exclusive chance to get a rare melee weapon by playing on this map!
Play a match on the Winter Mansion map and get the rare Fury knife for free! This offer is available till Monday!
Fury knife is a small melee weapon if cool skin and is useful in small-range maps or in knife only matches! Do you want some fancy melee weapon instead of a bland knife? Get it now for free!
Don't forget that we are still running the Double Credits campaign and some cool offers are available in the in-game store! Feel free to jump to Last Mortem this weekend, collect as many Credits as possible, get the exclusive Fury knife, and buy some epic stuff in the Store!
We thank you for your positive feedback about the Winter Mansion map, now is time to enjoy the last hours on it and the map will be available again next Christmas! Let's enjoy it!
These fences will obliterate anything that tries to pass through and turn them to dust, they are expensive though and you can only build 20, so use them wisely!
We've also increased the performance of the game slightly in this update.
We are aware of several annoying bugs, one of which being that when you shoot zombies in some cases the bullets do 0 damage. We are working on fixing this right now and the fix will be included in the next update.
This update is mainly for the Card Bag UI upgrade. In addition, we've also done the save data migration to make sure no more save data wipes in the future.
The next regular update will likely be the Card Alchemy, where you can combine different cards to create new cards! Make sure to keep some max-level cards in your bag in preparation for it.
Patch Notes: Version 0.2.2.2
Feature Updates: - Cards are now displayed in stacks; - Implemented Card Settings! Configure auto sell and protection count in the settings; - Library unknown card names now show as "????"; - Only collectible cards are displayed in the Library now;
Content Updates: - Enhanced iron and energy production on Venus; - Enhanced Space Folding I slightly; - Increased max levels of Higher Quality Steel and Heat Resistant Equipments (Total bonus unchanged); - Increased max level and max bonus of Path Knowledge I; - Lowered Mercury's recommended departure stats; - Added 2 new battle cards; - Preparation for Sun and Mars content;